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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

Vikram Seth

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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Discipline Obsession Substitute Writing
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Book Help Himself Object Place Proper Seek True
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Book Feeling Media Myself News People Space Writing
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
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Fiction Gossip Live People Yourself
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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Beyond Couple End Eyes Light Wake Up
It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Evil Fear God Heart Need Start
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Difference Let Go Life Love Myself Relationship
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Choice Myself
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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Life Myself Understand
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Goodness Myself Nature Person Thinking World

I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

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